Nature can be trusted to work her own miracle in the heart of any man whose daily task keeps him alone among her sights, sounds and silences.

When any man accumulates more than he can earn with his own hands, he begins to enrich himself at the expense of the youth, the sweat, the blood, the joy of his fellow men.

In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception

But Aunt Margaret doesn't like boys," objected Elnora. "Well, she likes me, and I used to be a boy.

It really seems as if failure and hardship make more of a human being of folks than success.

no one in the whole world knows all a man's bignesses and all his littlenesses as his wife does.

we know by the odour that occasionally we are visited by skunks, which are not poetic but very beautiful.